Case Study: Hershey Entertainment & Resorts achieves 95% faster data recovery and Scale-Out NAS with Cohesity

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Chooses Cohesity for Next-Gen Data Management and Scale-Out NAS

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts (HE&R), the hospitality and entertainment company behind Hersheypark and several resorts, needed a modern, scalable data management platform as it refreshed its datacenter. With a 99% virtualized environment, legacy backup complexity, growing seasonal data volumes and a desire for a nearer failover site and cloud-ready workflows, the IT team sought a single, simple solution for backup/recovery, long‑term retention and Scale‑Out NAS.

HE&R deployed Cohesity’s web‑scale platform for backup and recovery, SMB file services, dev/test and DR (with a secondary cluster in Bethlehem), simplifying operations and eliminating legacy pain points. Results included >95% faster recoveries, instant VM restores, 30x global deduplication/compression, reduced primary SAN needs, and the ability to tier to Microsoft Azure—delivering lower TCO and greater agility for future cloud and development use cases.

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Chris Roye

Infrastructure Engineer